feature tree – Mallee Design

Australian Native Plants in Japan

It was inevitable that I wouldn’t be able to turn off my native plant nerd brain whilst overseas in Japan last month…. I tried, I really did. I took photos of Japanese plants, seed pods and flowers and researched after… Read more ›

16/02/2023

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Landscape Design, Medium Tree, Natives for containers, Screening plants, Small garden, Small tree, Winter flowering

Acacia baileyana, Acacia covenyi, Acacia decurrens, Backhousia citriodora, Brachychiton rupestris, Cissus antartica, Eucalyptus polyanthemos, Eucalyptus pulverulenta 'Baby Blue', feature tree, foliage contrast, grey green leaves, Hardenbergia violacea, Indoor plant, Leptospermum brachyandrum 'Silver', well drained soil, yellow flowers

Merry NSW Christmas Bush: Ceratopetalum gummiferum

I am a bit of a Grinch when it comes to Christmas and often one of the things which pulls me our of my un-festive slump is our Ceratopetalum gummiferum or native Christmas Bush. This year I was a little… Read more ›

23/12/2022 2 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Coastal, Feature shrub, Formal gardens, Hedge, Illawarra natives, Landscape Design, Medium Tree, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Small tree

Australian Native Garden, bee attracting, Ceratopetalum albury's christmas, Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Christmas bush, cut flower, dense habit, feature tree, Festive, flowers and bracts, native bees, Pollinator Plants, Red flowers, spring flowering, summer flowering, well drained soil

Luscious, Dense and Green: Xanthostemon chrysanthus

This showy small to medium tropical tree was flowering its head off on my recent trip to Brisbane and northern NSW. It was such a welcome sight after the damp, soggy Summer we have had, finally a species revelling in… Read more ›

27/04/2022 1 Comment

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Feature shrub, Hedge, Medium Tree, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Small tree

Autumn Flowering, bee attracting, feature tree, large flower, long flowering period, privacy screen, Quick growing, rainforest species, shade tree, Street Trees, summer flowering, tropical species, Xanthostemon chrysanthus, yellow flowers

Summer Scents: Hymenosporum flavum

The scent of a frangipani marks Summer for many people, when I used to live in Sydney the frangipanis and jasmine filled the inner city streets in Summer giving off a potent scent in the warm weather. What many people… Read more ›

15/02/2022 2 Comments

Kath Gadd

Butterfly attracting, Medium Tree, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Tropical garden

bee attracting, feature tree, fragrant, fragrant flowers, Hymenosporum flavum, long flowering period, part shade, perfume, Street Trees, summer flowering, yellow flowers

Happy Eucalypt Day! Eucalyptus pulverulenta ‘Baby Blue’

National Eucalypt Day is an initiative of Eucalypt Australia that aims to raise awareness of Eucalypts and celebrate the important place that they hold in the hearts and lives of Australians. I have taken some photos of one of my… Read more ›

23/03/2021 3 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Small garden, Small tree, Uncategorized

Autumn Flowering, bee attracting, eucalyptaus, Eucalyptus pulverulenta 'Baby Blue', EucBeaut, feature tree, foliage contrast, grey green leaves, Mallee Eucalyptus, NationalEucalyptDay, native insect attracting, pollination

As delicate as a rose: Archirhodomyrtus beckleri

This small feature tree really would fit in nicely in a garden full of roses, lavender and other English cottage style plants. The tiny flowers remind me of the blooms on climbing rose bushes and this pretty rainforest tree has… Read more ›

09/11/2020 2 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Bush tucker, Butterfly attracting, Screening plants

Archirhodomyrtus beckleri, bee attracting, Bush Foods, feature tree, fence screening, fragrant, perfume, privacy screen, rainforest species, Rose myrtle, shade tolerant, small garden, understory planting

Softly softly: Eucalyptus ficifolia ‘Fairy Floss’ Grafted

These soft, gentle pink flower clusters belong to another grafted Eucalyptus (Corymbia) ficifolia dwarf grafted gum, this sweet small tree is called ‘Fairy Floss’, isn’t the name just perfect? This small feature tree flowers in the warm summer months between… Read more ›

29/01/2020 23 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Screening plants, Small garden, Small tree

bee attracting, Corymbia ficifolia 'Fairy Floss', Eucalyptus ficifolia 'Fairy Floss', Eucalyptus ficifolia grafted, feature tree, large flower, pink flowers, summer flowering, WA, well drained soil

Potfolio: Ashfield Revisit

I was very excited to be asked back to one of my favourite clients, to do a design for the rear of her property, it also meant I was able to have a proper nosey at the establishment of the front… Read more ›

01/10/2019 1 Comment

Kath Gadd

Feature shrub, Landscape Design, Naturalistic garden, Ornamental grass, Portfolio, Small garden

aildm, aildm_aus, Banksia 'Coastal Cushions', Callistemon 'Little John', Eucalyptus 'wimmerensis 'Tuckertime Honey Pots', feature tree, grey green leaves, Lomandra 'Little Lime', Meeboldina 'Velvet Rush', Modern Australian Native Garden, Poa 'Kingsdale', Poa labillardieri, street address, weeping habit, Xanthorrhoea johnsonii

Portfolio: Gladesville Front Garden Design

This sweet front garden was built earlier this year after a quite extensive house renovation in Gladesville, it is somewhat of a “treat” for the client and the house to have a fresh start after a year of messing building… Read more ›

22/09/2019

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Feature shrub, Groundcover, Hedge, Landscape Design, Naturalistic garden, Portfolio, Screening plants, Small tree, Winter flowering

Acacia 'Lime Magic', aildm, Anigozanthos 'Big Red', carpeting ground cover, Corten Steel, Decomposed Crushed Granite, fast growing, feature tree, foliage contrast, grey green leaves, Hardenbergia 'Flat White', Modern Australian Native Garden, Red flowers, street address, well drained soil

The weepiest of them all: Acacia cognata

Ahhh the river wattle, flopping about just like a willow 😉 Acacia cognata surely must be the weepiest and most cultivated of wattles, it is being remade and re branded everywhere! and for good reason too. Acacia cognata has a… Read more ›

22/07/2019 11 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Frost tolerant, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Small tree, Winter flowering

Acacia cognata, Acacia cognata 'Bower Beauty', Acacia cognata dwarf, bee attracting, clay soils, fast growing, feature tree, foliage contrast, frost tolerant, weeping habit, yellow flowers

Prune me! I am Eucalyptus pulverulenta!

This is without a doubt one of my favourite small Mallee Eucalypts, it is a very malleable mallee 😉 it responds so well to pruning that if you don’t prune it you are almost doing the plant a disservice. These… Read more ›

24/06/2019 26 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Frost tolerant, Small tree, Winter flowering

bee attracting, Eucalyptus pulverulenta 'Baby Blue', fast growing, feature tree, foliage contrast, grey green leaves, Mallee, Mallee Eucalyptus, Scented, silver foliage

Another special Dwarf Eucalyptus for small gardens: Eucalyptus citriodora ‘Scentuous’

The lemon scented gum is one of my favourite fragrances, that pungent citronella smell released after the rain or at dusk on a summer evening makes me all sentimental about our incredible flora. Unfortunately Eucalyptus or Corymbia citriodora doesn’t mix… Read more ›

26/03/2019 20 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Naturalistic garden, Small garden, Small tree

bee attracting, Corymbia citriodora 'Baby Citro', Eucalyptus citriodora 'Scentuous', feature tree, fragrant, grafted, Modern Australian Native Garden, summer flowering, weeping habit, white flower

Happy National Eucalypt Day! Eucalyptus leucoxylon ‘Euky Dwarf’

Happy National Eucalypt Day everyone! I really hope you were able to appreciate a Eucalpytus tree today at the very least, or possibly able to plant one? “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second… Read more ›

23/03/2019 25 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Frost tolerant, Small tree

Autumn Flowering, bee attracting, bird-attracting, clay soils, decorative bark, eucalyptaus, Eucalyptus leucoxylon 'Euky Dwarf', fast growing, feature tree, Honeyeater, lorikeet, Musk Lorikeet, National Eucalypt Day, Purple-crowned Lorikeet, Red flowers, weeping habit, wind tolerant

Why the name Mallee?

I am often asked if I come from Mallee country in Victoria and sadly the answer is no, Mallee Design my business name was not chosen for geographical reasons it was chosen for aesthetic reasons. I am in love with… Read more ›

19/02/2019 2 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Landscape Design, Small tree

bee attracting, drought tolerant, Eucalyptus lehmannii, Eucalyptus macrandra, fast growing, feature tree, Mallee, Mallee Eucalyptus, summer flowering, weeping habit, well drained soil, wildlife habitat, yellow flowers

The display gardens of Austplant Nursery

I have been away in Victoria for the past few weeks, camping on Wilsons Prom and then visiting native nurseries and gardens on the Mornington Peninsula. It was a wonderful holiday that has left me with a touch of post… Read more ›

23/01/2019 3 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Groundcover, Hedge, Landscape Design, Small tree

Happy little inner city garden: Leichhardt Garden Design

This small garden in the inner west of Sydney is actually quite generous, there is room for lawn, a studio and a seperate outdoor eating area. This means there is also room for lots of different native plants! Hooray! we… Read more ›

04/12/2018

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Hedge, Portfolio, Screening plants, Shade tolerant, Small garden, Small tree

Acacia 'Burgundy Cascade', Acacia cardiophylla, Adenanthos sericea, Anigozanthos 'Big Red', Banksia 'Sentinel', Casuarina 'Green Wave', Conostylis candicans, Corten Steel, feature tree, foliage contrast, Grevillea 'Dorothy Gordon', grey green leaves, Leptospermum 'Starry Night', Maireana oppositifolia 'Smokey', Modern Australian Native Garden, Ozothamnus 'Radiance', weeping habit

The most weeping of the weeping: Myoporum floribundum

I am obsessed with plants with a weeping habit or drooping foliage, some people find them sad and depressing looking but they are my favourite. There are many native plants with soft long leaves or gently falling branches, they can… Read more ›

25/11/2018 15 Comments

Kath Gadd

Butterfly attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Shade tolerant, Small garden, Uncategorized

bee attracting, fast growing, feature tree, frost tolerant, Myoporum floribundum, native bees, native insect attracting, summer flowering, understory planting, weeping habit, white flower

One My Favourite Grafted Grevillea Standards: Grevillea ‘Green Glow’

This post is about one of my favourite grafted grevillea standards, I actually have 2 or 3 favourites and unfortunately they are all a little hard to come by however all worth trying to find a place for in your… Read more ›

20/08/2018 24 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Feature shrub, Formal gardens, Frost tolerant, Small garden, Winter flowering

clay soils, feature tree, Grafted Grevillea, Grafted Grevillea Standard 'Green Glow', interesting foliage, Modern Australian Native Garden, Red flowers, weeping habit

The Elegant Wilga: Geijera parviflora

This beautiful, weeping small tree is known as Wilga or Australian Willow and willowy it is, its long, narrow, pendulous leaves droop down creating a dense shade umbrella. Unfortunately this Australian native tree is used quite infrequently in gardens or… Read more ›

08/08/2018 27 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Drought hardy, Frost tolerant, Small garden, Small tree

bee attracting, feature tree, fragrant, full sun, Geijera parviflora, grey green leaves, part shade, shade tree, silver foliage, slow growing, street address, weeping habit, wildlife habitat

Portfolio: Garden Design Bulli

Yesterday I spent a sunny winter morning pruning and shaping in this coastal garden in Bulli, I love returning to one of my designs to do a little maintenance and tweaking, and this is one of my favourites 😉 This… Read more ›

11/07/2018 5 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Coastal, Feature shrub, Medium Tree, Portfolio, Screening plants, Small tree, Winter flowering

Acacia 'Mini Cog', Banksia 'Coastal Cushions', Banksia 'Sentinel', bee attracting, Eremohpila nivea 'Blue Velvet', Eucalyptus 'Euky Dwarf', Eucalyptus 'Wildfire', feature tree, Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream', Grevillea 'Winter Delight', grey green leaves, Modern Australian Native Garden, Rhagodia spinescens, silver foliage, street address, Westringia 'Smokey', wind tolerant

Portfolio: Garden Design Lilyfield

This is the tiny front garden of a small cottage in Lilyfield that was planted out about about 2 years ago, during that time it has flourished! Providing well needed privacy from the street and adding a lovely sense of… Read more ›

12/05/2018 5 Comments

Kath Gadd

Feature shrub, Medium Tree, Portfolio, Shade tolerant, Small garden, Small tree

Acacia cognata, Acacia howittii 'Honey Bun', Banksia 'Honey Pots', Eucalyptus citriodora 'Scentuous', fast growing, feature tree, foliage contrast, Plectranthus argentatus, privacy screen, street address, Themeda 'Mingo', Themeda 'True Blue', understory planting, weeping habit

Spectacular: Eucalyptus erythrocorys

I almost feel like writing no text necessary next to these images of Eucalyptus erythrocorys, this truly has to be one of the most wonderful eucalyptus flowers in the Australia! those colours, can it get any better? This specimen is growing on… Read more ›

26/03/2018 7 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Coastal, Drought hardy, Small tree

Autumn Flowering, decorative bark, decorative fruit, decorative seed head, Eucalyptus erythrocorys, feature tree, WA, well drained soil, yellow flowers

Some like it hot! Buckinghamia celsissima

All this hot weather has certainly been of benefit to the Ivory Curl trees in and around Sydney, they are blooming themselves silly! This photos in this blog post are of a specimen in my mums garden in Wollongong, the… Read more ›

02/03/2018

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Butterfly attracting, Medium Tree, Small tree

bee attracting, Buckinghamia celsissima, clay soils, feature tree, Honeyeaters, insectivorous birds, large flower, native insect attracting, rainforest species, summer flowering, weeping habit, white flower

The Iconic Illawarra Flame Tree: Brachychiton acerifolius

Wow it has been a dry, windy, horrible winter here on the east coast of NSW, in the last week the rain has finally reached us. However it seems to me that this is exactly the sort of weather the flame… Read more ›

08/11/2017 2 Comments

Kath Gadd

Bird attracting, Drought hardy, Illawarra natives, Medium Tree

Brachychiton acerifolius, deciduous, feature tree, Illawarra Flame Tree, Indigenous to the Illawarra, Red flowers

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Australian Native Plants in Japan

Merry NSW Christmas Bush: Ceratopetalum gummiferum

Luscious, Dense and Green: Xanthostemon chrysanthus

Summer Scents: Hymenosporum flavum

Happy Eucalypt Day! Eucalyptus pulverulenta ‘Baby Blue’

As delicate as a rose: Archirhodomyrtus beckleri

Softly softly: Eucalyptus ficifolia ‘Fairy Floss’ Grafted

Potfolio: Ashfield Revisit

Portfolio: Gladesville Front Garden Design

The weepiest of them all: Acacia cognata

Prune me! I am Eucalyptus pulverulenta!

Another special Dwarf Eucalyptus for small gardens: Eucalyptus citriodora ‘Scentuous’

Happy National Eucalypt Day! Eucalyptus leucoxylon ‘Euky Dwarf’

Why the name Mallee?

The display gardens of Austplant Nursery

Happy little inner city garden: Leichhardt Garden Design

The most weeping of the weeping: Myoporum floribundum

One My Favourite Grafted Grevillea Standards: Grevillea ‘Green Glow’

The Elegant Wilga: Geijera parviflora

Portfolio: Garden Design Bulli

Portfolio: Garden Design Lilyfield

Spectacular: Eucalyptus erythrocorys

Some like it hot! Buckinghamia celsissima

The Iconic Illawarra Flame Tree: Brachychiton acerifolius